Sporadic commentary on the telecoms and IT market in Latvia and the Baltic States.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Blowback at last

Latvian blogger Kristaps Kaupenotes that the Latvian-language IT-related website and quasi-blog Datuve has translated and summarized my earlier post on 10 gigs across the Baltic. Finally, some blowback, which is not really the right word. Blowback is spook (read spy or intelligence agency) terminology for disinformation planted in the foreign press that somehow comes back into the mainstream media of the disinforming country :). It is like the CIA plants a story in the Moldovan press that an enemy of the US, Sheik Yerbooty of Wazoonistan gets it on with his sheep. That is meant to make Moldovans, who are looking for an alternative oil supply to, say, Russia, will avoid Wazoonistan because they are sensitive about human/sheep affection and actually believe that kind of weird shit. But there is, say, a Moldovan American stringer for the National Enquirer* who files a story saying that press reports claim Sheik Yerbooty does lambs (sheep pedofilia) and the New York Times at least notes that preposterous claims are circulating about someone already in disfavor with Washington, so blowback does have its benefits.*a newspaper sold in lower-scale supermarkets with headlines like "Two-Headed Alien Crocodile Eats Baby Siamese Twins" and the like.Anyway, I have discovered and tested the linking tool in Blogger that Kristaps Kaupe recently said he was surprised I wasn't using (well, not linking is what he meant).